New direct visits record for FIRSTonline in January which started 2019 with a bang with a clear growth in the audience and the launch of a new sister site, FIRST Tutorial, the fourth publication of the AL editorial initiatives stable, which aims to simplify the daily life of web readers.
The continuous growth of FIRSTonline, the web daily of economics and finance, is attested by the number of direct views which in January, according to Google Analytics surveys, came within a whisker of one million and 600 thousand (to be precise, they were 1.591.135 , i.e. over 50 thousand per day), with a leap of over 260 thousand compared to the previous record of July 2018 (1.330.393) and net of contacts registered on social networks and on the Microsoft Italia portal (www.msn.it), to which FIRSTonline provides economics and finance content.
The service information on the main economic measures of the Government and in particular on pensions, the basic income and the flat tax was the engine of the leap forward in the views of FIRSTonline in January, to which the services on the Stock Exchange also contributed, on the real estate market, on trade balances, on political, cultural and sporting current events. and on international current affairs, starting with Brexit and the trade war. The weekend's interviews with the protagonists of the economy, finance and politics have, in turn, kept the quality of FIRSTonline's information high.
In January, in addition to the audience that brought FIRSTonline to a record number of visits, the group's publications grew: in addition to the economics and finance web journal, which is about to celebrate its eighth birthday and in addition to the two sites born past – FIRST Arte curated by Marika Lion and First&Food curated by Giuliano De Risi – FIRST Tutorial made its debut in recent days, the site managed by Federico Rendina which intends to facilitate the relations of readers and citizens with the Public Administration via the web, with the tax authorities, with banks, with insurance companies and with utilities but also to help them solve the practical problems of everyday life such as the maintenance of a computer or a mobile phone on which everyone needs simple and valuable advice.
